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After this morning's financial report for Verizon, Fran Shammo, their Chief Financial Officer confirmed to investors that shared data plans will launch "this summer." This means that more than likely sometime between July and September the shared data plans will become available to current or new Verizon customers. Although there have been several rumors about Verizon shared data plans for families since last year, we have not had anything concrete about it until now. We still don't know any details, but at least we know "when" we will know more about the plans.

Do you guys think these plans will be priced in a way that adds value to families, or is this just a sneaky way for VZW to transition more people off of WiFi networks onto their 4g LTE service? Share your thoughts.

Do you guys think these plans will be priced in a way that adds value to families, or is this just a sneaky way for VZW to transition more people off of WiFi networks onto their 4g LTE service? Share your thoughts.

With smart phones being the only real option now for a phone, a lot of people just go over to smart phones, and pay a bunch for nothing. I look at my family plan, and excluding me the other three use around 500MB a month total.

I currently pay $180 for 700mins and unlimited everything else on two phones. I hope I can share my unlimited data to my second phone and I'd even open a third for business purposes only if they allow to share my unlimited plan. That would be around $180 for 3 phone instead of only two.

I think the point of this is to encourage tablets and other non phone devices. It makes sense when you consider that someone who goes from a smart phone to a smart phone + tablet probably won't be using both at once (present company excepted) so they probably won't double their bandwidth use. Just look at the shared texting plans. You don't break even until your 3rd phone and that's if they are all heavy users.